Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: How thieves are watching iPhone owners publicly tap their passcodes to lock victims out of accounts, access data, and loot financial apps after stealing devices  —  The passcode that unlocks your phone can give thieves access to your money and data; ‘it’s like a treasure box’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: Midjourney temporarily bans some words about the human reproductive system to prevent generating shocking or gory images, while the company “improves things”  —  Midjourney says it’s a temporary measure to stop people from using its system to create shocking or gory images. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: Midjourney temporarily bans some words about the human reproductive system to prevent generating shocking or gory images, while the company “improves things”  —  Midjourney says it’s a temporary measure to stop people from using its system to create shocking or gory images. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Politico: Crypto analytics firm Inca Digital: Huobi and KuCoin still allow traders to transact with debit cards issued by sanctioned Russian banks on their P2P platforms  —  Two of the world’s largest crypto exchanges failed to take steps to prevent sanctioned Russian banks from using their platforms … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: A look at the Nvidia A100, a ~$10K GPU that has become a critical tool for generative AI; Nvidia has an estimated 95% market share of machine learning GPUs  —  – Companies like Microsoft and Google are fighting to integrate cutting-edge AI into their search engines, as billion-dollar competitors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: A major outage has taken down Dish Network’s websites, apps, and customer support systems; remote employees have been cut off from accessing their work systems  —  Since Thursday morning, Dish Network has been experiencing a major outage that’s taken down the company’s main websites, apps … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Glenn Peoples / Billboard: TikTok’s test in Australia that limits some users’ access to licensed music is to study what is trending, how users access its service, and more, per a source  —  The short-form video app known for breaking viral hits, is using music in a different way Down Under.  —  What’s TikTok without music? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jan Wolfe / Wall Street Journal: The US FTC drops its administrative trial to block Meta’s acquisition of Within less than a month after its federal court loss, handing a final victory to Meta  —  Antitrust regulator drops administrative trial to block Facebook parent’s purchase of Within Unlimited Lees verder op Tech Meme

Moneycontrol: Amazon plans to integrate its logistics network and SaaS tools with India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce, after Paytm and others committed to joining ONDC  —  Other e-commerce and fintech players who have committed to join ONDC include Meesho, Snapdeal, Shiprocket, Paytm and PhonePe Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Sequoia Capital China, which raised $8.5B in 2022, has started screening some investments for US national security concerns, a first for the company  —  Venture-capital firm starts screening its China arm’s investments as Washington prepares to limit U.S. capital going to some Chinese tech companies Lees verder op Tech Meme